UI Engineer
Location: US, NY, New York
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Shapeways is the leading 3D printing marketplace and community, empowering designers to bring amazing products to life. By giving anyone the ability to quickly and affordably turn ideas from digital designs into real products, Shapeways is fundamentally changing how products are made and by whom.Through Shapeways, designers gain access to the best industrial 3D printing technology, capable of manufacturing products with complex designs in a wide range of high-quality materials. 3D printing turns raw materials into original products, from wedding rings to rocketships, model trains to iPhone cases, and prototypes to industrial engineering parts. The Shapeways community can sell their products, share ideas, and get feedback from creative consumers and other designers around the world.Headquartered in New York, Shapeways has factories and offices in Eindhoven, Queens, and Seattle. Shapeways is a spin-out of the lifestyle incubator of Royal Philips Electronics, and our investors include Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, Lux Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz.

Job description:
If you are a front-end engineer who is familiar and practiced with the technology and patterns of a modern front-end stack, Shapeways needs you! We are looking for passionate technologists with a strong skillset in both server-side and client-side development and the architectural vision to connect the two. You will be a key contributor of our UI team, working across functional teams to build an elegant, innovative, and scalable front-end application architecture — join us to change the way things get made.ResponsibilitiesDevelop and maintain a presentation layer for a full-stack web applicationExtend and improve Shapeways’ declarative client-side view framework for reusable and reactive page componentsClient-side MVC for keeping page data consolidated and up-to-dateModular and reusable CSS patterns with a focus on client-side performanceEnhance tooling for building client payload and measuring client performanceIntegrate event tracking frameworks to enhance business intelligenceWork with Quality team to ensure client-side code has robust test coverageEvangelize and mentor front-end patterns and best practices across many functional teams

Requirements:
Ability to manage time in a startup culture and a leadership mentalityMastery of HTML, SASS, PHP and JavascriptStrong experience with modular Javascript developmentUnderstanding of both client-side and server-side MVCDeep understanding of content delivery and client-side performance metricsUnderstanding of client/server security practices

Benefits:
Why join our team?Shapeways is breaking new ground in the field of 3D printing. With our website and marketplace for designers, our goal is to give everyone access to the revolution of additive manufacturing. This isn’t your typical web business – we have a physical product at the back end. If you’d like to work in a dynamic, collaborative, respectful environment where colleagues share ideas and encourage each other to think creatively, Shapeways is just what you’re looking for. Fun is also part of our DNA – a sense of humor is a must! You’ll also have the coolest desk toys anywhere.Stock options in the companyMedical Benefits (individual at 100%)Vision insurance at a cost to the employee.Dental insurance at a cost to the employee.Flexible Spending AccountCommuter Benefits401(k)Four weeks of PTO (20 days total/year) in addition to national holidaysFive sick days/yearFlexible schedule and work-from-home optionStocked fridge (free food, drinks, beer etc), free lunch at LICWorking with some of the most talented, passionate, creative innovators in NYC. Best culture out there.